[AT] Battery Issues - Charging

[charlie hill]

I think those new chargers were designed to be idiot proof first and how 
well the work is secondary.  I needed to run a small 12 volt battery 
recently and didn't have a good battery around.  The Charger wouldn't run it 
directly but I hooked the charger to a dead battery and hooked the motor to 
it and it worked fine.

Sunday a friend of mine was trying to charge the battery on his 265 MF 
without taking the cover off the battery.  He hooked the + to the BAT lug on 
the starter and the - to the chassis and called me to ask if that was ok. 
He wanted to make sure he wasn't about to burn something up.  I asked him 
which charger he was using.  He said that little one I bought from WalMart 
last year.  I said, don't worry it won't hurt anything.  If you hook them up 
wrong they won't work and I guess for folks that buy them and don't know 
what they are doing  that is a good thing.  Sure takes the fun out of it 
though.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry & Barb Dotson" <dotson at loganrec.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Issues - Charging


> Warren,
> I have the same experience as others with the new battery charger. The 
> first
> one charged 1 battery before it went bad. Took it back and got another 
> one.
> It is working, but only if the battery is partially charged. I bought an
> older style 6/12 volt and it is working fine.
>
> Larry D.
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